avenue en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
Borrowed from French avenue, from Old French avenue, feminine past participle of avenir (“approach”), from Latin adveniō, advenīre (“come to”, from ad (“to”) + veniō, venīre (“come”)).
Meanings
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A broad street, especially one bordered by trees or, in cities laid out in a grid pattern, one that is on a particular side of the city or that runs in a particular direction.
Finding an address east to west is fairly simple . The numbering begins at Central Avenue and moves logically and predictably either west through the avenues or east through the streets, so you know that 2400 East Camelback is at Twenty-Fourth Street or 4300 West Indian School is at Forty-Third Avenue .
2009, Carrie Frasure, Arizona Off the Beaten Path®: A Guide to Unique Places, →ISBN, page 111:Boulevards typically (but not exclusively) go east to west; avenues usually run north to south.
2011, Time Out Los Angeles, →ISBN, page 78:The City of New York implemented a unified street grid in Queens: Numbered avenues run east–west; numbered streets run north–south.
2014, Adrienne Onofri, Walking Queens, →ISBN:
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A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may be reached; a way of approach or of exit.
[S]ome have used to get on the top of the higheſt Steeple, vvhere one may vievv with advantage, all the Countrey circumjacent, and the ſite of the City, vvith the advenues and approaches about it; and ſo take a Landskip of it.
1642, James Howell, “Section III”, in Instructions for Forreine Travell. […], London: […] T. B. for Humprey Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC, page 32:
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The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.
They said nothing further, but tramped on in the growing darkness, past farm steadings, into the little village, through the silent churchyard where generations of the Pallisers lay, and up the beech avenue that led to Northrop Hall.
1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
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A method or means by which something may be accomplished.
There are several avenues by which we can approach this problem.
The main reason for this state of affairs is probably that, for the exceptionally able man who accepts the present order of society, a multitude of other avenues to influence and power are open, while to the disaffected and dissatisfied an intellectual career is the most promising path to both influence and the power to contribute to the achievement of his ideals.
1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 427:Alexis Sanchez hit the crossbar for Barcelona early on and Pedro hit the post in the dying seconds - while Cole cleared off the line from Cesc Fabregas. Goalkeeper Petr Cech also saved well from Messi and Carles Puyol as Pep Guardiola's team tried every avenue in an attempt to break Chelsea down.
2012 April 18, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 1-0 Barcelona”, in BBC Sport:One avenue being explored is the Esk Valley line's community rail designation status, to see if standards more appropriate to a main line railway can be challenged with a view to facilitating low-cost operation of a rural branch.
2019 October, James Abbott, “Esk Valley revival”, in Modern Railways, page 78:In the future, he says, a focus on the hate circuit may open new avenues for treatment – including new drugs and psychotherapies – that target this and other specific circuits in the brain.
2011 October 4, Amanda MacMillan, “Depressed brains may hate differently”, in CNN:As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent Patriot.
1796, George Washington, "Farewell Address", American Daily Advertiser
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| avenues | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Acacia Avenue · wedding avenue · stravenue · avenuelike · avenued
Synonyms
drive (broad street) · av (broad street) · boulevard (broad street) · ave. (broad street) · av. (broad street) · ave (broad street)
Translations (118)
la platēa (broad street) · eo aleo (broad street) · ur خِیابان (broad street) · bg але́я (way or opening; a passage) · fi keino (method or means) · bo རྒྱ་ལམ (broad street) · ka გამზირი (broad street) · tg гузаргоҳ (broad street) · sv aveny (broad street) · ga deis (method or means) · uz avenyu (broad street) · tl abenida (broad street) · nl laan (principal approach to a house withdrawn from the road) · el δρόμος (way or opening; a passage) · lv avēnija (broad street) · ko 대도 (broad street) · tr cadde (broad street) · lt prospektas (broad street) · fi bulevardi (broad street) · ru путь (method or means) · sa वीथी (broad street) · ab апроспект (broad street) · vi đại lộ (broad street) · is breiðstræti (broad street) · lt alėja (broad street) · kk даңғыл (broad street) · be авэню́ (broad street) · sh алеја (broad street) · scn cursu (broad street) · sh avenija (broad street) · eo avenuo (broad street) · uk авеню́ (broad street) · ko 거리 (broad street) · hu sugárút (broad street) · sk alej (broad street) · is troð (broad street) · ms lebuh (broad street) · ga aibhinne (broad street) · fr avenue (broad street) · nl laan (broad street) · ru проспе́кт (broad street) · nb aveny (broad street) · gcr avéni (broad street) · be авеню́ (broad street) · el οδός (principal approach to a house withdrawn from the road) · es avenida (broad street) · lv aleja (broad street) · eu etorbide (broad street) · th ถนน (broad street) · ka პროსპექტი (broad street) · fi reitti (way or opening; a passage) · ru алле́я (way or opening; a passage) · pl podjazd (principal approach to a house withdrawn from the road) · et puiestee (broad street) · ja 並木道 (broad street) · be праспэ́кт (broad street) · ro avenue (broad street) · hy պողոտա (broad street) · nl weg (broad street) · pt avenida (broad street) · tl kabulusan (broad street) · hu út (method or means) · fa-ira خِیابان (broad street) · nb allé (broad street) · it viale (broad street) · fa-ira مَعْبَر (broad street) · it corso (broad street) · vo lael (broad street) · de Allee (broad street) · fi puistokatu (principal approach to a house withdrawn from the road) · cmn 大道 (broad street) · fi puistokatu (broad street) · be праспе́кт (broad street) · ru подъе́зд (principal approach to a house withdrawn from the road) · fi valtakatu (broad street) · da allé (broad street) · cs třída (broad street) · he שְׂדֵרָה (broad street) · cmn 大街 (broad street) · ru алле́я (broad street) · scn stratuni (broad street) · ru авеню́ (broad street) · el δρόμος (principal approach to a house withdrawn from the road) · cmn 大路 (broad street) · pdt Gauss (broad street) · es camino (method or means) · cmn 大馬路 /大马路 (broad street) · gl avenida (broad street) · fi pihatie (principal approach to a house withdrawn from the road) · et avenüü (broad street) · tg хиёбон (broad street) · mwl abenida (broad street) · uk проспе́кт (broad street) · az prospekt (broad street) · af laan (broad street) · da avenue (broad street) · ru сре́дство (method or means) · fa-ira گُذَرْگاه (broad street) · el οδός (way or opening; a passage) · et allee (broad street) · hy պրոսպեկտ (broad street) · es vía (method or means) · eu hiribide (broad street) · ko 가로수길 (broad street) · ar شَارِع (broad street) · el λεωφόρος (broad street) · ru ме́тод (method or means) · bg авеню́ (broad street) · ca avinguda (broad street) · sh авенија (broad street) · hu út (broad street) · pl aleja (broad street) · sh aleja (broad street) · ro cale (broad street) · ja 大道り (broad street) · vi thông lộ (broad street) · ps واټ (broad street) · sl aleja (broad street)